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title: Genesis 44:23 (JPS 1917) — And thou saidst unto thy servants: Except your youngest brother come… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thou saidst unto thy servants: Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more. Who acts: thou, youngest brother, ye. Genesis 44:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 44:23 · JPS 1917

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And thou saidst unto thy servants: Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.

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**Who acts:** thou, youngest brother, ye · **What happens:** say, come down, see · **To what, where:** face · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Genesis 44:23 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, youngest brother, ye), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:GEN:1462
# text = And thou saidst unto thy servants: Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saidst	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	Except	except	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	no	no	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | thou |  |  |  |  | unto thy servants | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come down** | present | your youngest brother |  |  |  |  | with you; down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | shall | ye | my face |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אֶל־עֲבָדֶ֔יךָ אִם־לֹ֥א יֵרֵ֛ד אֲחִיכֶ֥ם הַקָּטֹ֖ן אִתְּכֶ֑ם לֹ֥א תֹסִפ֖וּן לִרְא֥וֹת פָּנָֽי׃

[Genesis 44:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.44.23/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:1462` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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